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أَعْرَضَ turned away in Arabic

أَعْرَضَ is how you say “turned away” in Arabic.

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فَلَمَّا جلس إِلَيْهِ قَالَ لسَيِّده مَا لي أَرَاك كئيبًا حَزينًا فاعرض عَنهُ

So when he sat down with him, he said to his master, 'Why do I see you sad and sorrowful?' But he turned away from him.

فَأَعْرَضَ but he turned away

'fa-' = 'but/so'; past-tense verb, subject 'he' built in.

From Luqman's Response to Injustice

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فَقَالَ لَهُ الثَّانِيَة مثل ذَلِك فاعرض عَنهُ

So he said to him a second time the same thing, but he turned away from him.

فَأَعْرَضَ but he turned away

'fa-' = 'but/so'; past-tense verb, subject 'he' built in.

From Luqman's Response to Injustice

ثمَّ قَالَ لَهُ الثَّالِثَة مثل ذَلِك فاعرض عَنهُ

Then he said to him a third time the same thing, but he turned away from him.

فَأَعْرَضَ so he turned away

'fa-' = 'so'; past-tense verb, subject 'he' built in.

From Luqman's Response to Injustice

وإن أعرضت كإعراضك عن وصية الإله العظيم ،

And if you turn away as you turned away from the command of the Almighty God,

أَعْرَضْتَ you turn away

This is a past-tense verb with the attached -ta 'you' as subject, to a single male, 'you turned away'. After 'if', the past form states the hypothetical condition though the sense reaches into the future; the doer rides as a suffix on the verb.

From True Devotion

وَكَذَلِكَ من أعرض عَن اتِّبَاع الْحق الَّذِي يُعلمهُ تبعا لهواه فَإِن ذَلِك يورثه الْجَهْل والضلال حَتَّى يعمى قلبه عَن الْحق الْوَاضِح

And likewise: whoever turns away from following the truth that is taught to him, following his own desire, then that (attitude) will beget in him ignorance and misguidance until his heart becomes blind to the clear truth.

أَعْرَضَ turned away

Past-tense verb, 'he turned away', with its 'he' built in, used generally inside the 'whoever' clause. The past form reads as a timeless 'turns away' setting up the condition.

From Following Desires

فَإِنْ أَعْرَضَ عَنْهُ وَاِشْتَغَلَ لِمَا هُوَ بِصَدَدِهِ،

If, however, he turns away from it and becomes occupied with what occupies him,

أَعْرَضَ turns away

A derived (form IV) completed-action verb 'he turned away / shunned', with its 'he' subject inside, serving as the verb of the new 'if'. Built on the causative-style pattern, here it means deliberately averting oneself. In the conditional it reads as a general 'if he turns away'.

From Choosing Good Companions

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